Eadweard Muybridge : the Stanford years, 1872-1882 (1953)

26. The Marey reception: Le Globe, 27 September 1881. The Meissonier reception: Figaro, 27 November 1881. [For an excerpt from Le Globe, see Documents, I.] Kingston Scrapbook, pp. 68, 71. 27. The British Journal of Photography for 17 March 1882 reports: "On Monday evening, at the Royal Institution, Albemarle-street, the first public exhibition in this country was given [by Muy bridge] in the presence of the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Princesses Louise, Victoria and Maud, the Duke of Edinburgh and suite, whilst among the leaders of the scientific and literary world we recognized Professors Tyndall, Huxley, Owen, and Gladstone, the Poet Laureate, and many others. "On Tuesday evening last, again, in the lecture room of the Royal Academy, in the presence of Sir Frederick Leighton and most of the Academicians and Associates and a large number of guests, the exhibition was repeated, to the evident satisfaction of all, as the hearty applause which greeted most of the pictures testified." Kingston Scrapbook, p. 75. 28. J.D.B. Stillman, The Horse in Motion, Boston, 1882. Muybridge claimed that before he left America, he had approved a different title page, which included his name, and that Stillman had assured him that the book was to be "photographically illustrated." [For Stanford's Preface, see Documents, F. For Muybridge 's claim, see Documents, H.] 29. Nature (London), 27 April 1882. Kingston Scrapbook, p. 83. [For full text, see Documents, F.] Muybridge maintained the position that he stated here throughout his lifetime. Always an independent, he did not relish being called an employee. The issue was resolved after Stanford's death in 1893, when Muybridge assumed full rights to the pictures and reestablished his public image by reproducing them photographically as part of his Animals in Motion and The Human Figure in Motion. 30. Letter, Stillman to the publisher, James Osgood & Co., 10 April 1882. Stanford University Archives. Stillman may have been referring to the faster gelatine process, which was not available when the Stanford/Muybridge experiments were going on. 31. Letter, Stanford to Stillman, 23 October 1882. Stanford University Archives. [For the full text, see Documents, F.] 32. Letter, Stanford to Stillman, 5 January 1883. Stanford University Archives. 33. Deposition of Frank Shay, 23 July, 1883, in Stanford vs. Muybridge. This deposition and depositions and letters cited below are in the Huntington Collection, George Arents Research Library, Syracuse University. 34. Deposition of J.D.B. Stillman, 7 August 1883. [See Documents, E.] 35. Letter, Muybridge to Frank Shay, 28 November 1881. [The matter can be followed in the material reprinted in Documents, F.] 36. Ibid. 37. Letter, Muybridge to Frank Shay, 23 December 1881. 38. Ibid. 39. Ibid. 40. Letter, Stillman to Alfred A. Cohen, 25 July 1883. 41. William R. French, The Horse in Motion, Notes and Criticisms, November, 1882. Manuscript, University of Pennsylvania Library. 42. The Journal of the Camera Club, London, p. 190 ff. Kingston Scrapbook, p. 196, ff. [For Muybridge's letter, dated 9 November 1897, see Documents, I.] Photography of motion was not Muybridge's only interest after 1882. He continued his landscape photography until the late 1890s. Many views taken during this later period exist only in the form of lantern slides at the Science Museum, London. 43. E. Muybridge, Animals in Motion, London, 1899, p. 5. Robert Bartlett Haas is Director of Arts and Humanities Extension, University of California at Los Angeles. His biography, Muybridge, Man in Motion, is forthcoming from the University of California Press 35